A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google “instant rice Lemmy” and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?
I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don’t have Lemmy in their name, I don’t think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?
I read a post yesterday about some exec over there acknowledging users are unhappy about search results lately given searching for UGC highly prioritises Reddit. That has always been arbitrary but seems like the problems associated with doing that were relatively minor until the blackout. Now that’s happened they’ll likely change approach.
Edit: Here’s the post. https://lemmy.world/post/672098